today is the olympics of this

Ernst Kantorowicz - Radiances Unpublished Essays on Gods, Kingship, and Images of the State À paraître en juillet aux Cornell UP

Interesting phenomenon since 4/2 where Gao, Pettis, etc., continually claim triumph after triumph while being repeatedly proven wrong in practice. An endlessly capacious worldview that can predict nothing yet purports to explain everything (via Twitter headlines).

Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Three Times (2005) is about the Yen being the currency of the End of History

Old school orientalist mystification like this is kinda quaint now, these days realheads use random Chinese words to discuss the latest polls in Iowa. Surely an omen of ziqi for Kamala... the purple qi of the Midwest...

New Bloomberg insight:

“China isn’t just sort of an analytical problem, it is the political problem…. The development of China is the master key, I think, to understanding modernity…. And without it, you just don’t have a hope of grasping what’s going on.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sin…

Chapter by me on Han Fei, AI and the concept of the state 👇